On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:15:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I noticed that in many languages, countrychooser's menu item is > displayed as a blank line. This includes Chinese, Japanese, Greek, > Russian, Norwegian. Some investigation revealed that this is because > mktemplates was is not set -e, so when debconf-updatepo failed, it > continues and built a broken package. debconf-updatepo failed like this: > > xgettext: Non-ASCII string at ../templates.tmp:3. > Please specify the source encoding through --from-code. > WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings > > This is because /usr/share/iso-codes/iso_3166.tab has added to it the Aland > islands, excpet the A is spelled Å. I have put in a nasty hack to deal with > this so we can get a working version of the package again, but I wonder if > that file should include non-ascii strings?
>From the gettext point of view, having UTF-8 encoded English strings is fine. For po-debconf, I am waiting for a decision on #232296, but would anyway prefer to wait after sarge before accepting non-ASCII letters, because this will require gettext 0.13. > Also, one last problem -- I noticed that even with these fixes, the generated > templates file has blank lines for the nl translations. Err, I thought I sent this mail yesterday :( This is really weird; Christian patches to intltool-merge may cause trouble since Perl warnings are printed. But IMO these warnings are harmless, I am able to reproduce similar errors with msgmerge only, and they disappear when nl.po is UTF-8 encoded. So I recoded this file into UTF-8, and will investigate later. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
